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I uproot a spruce stump or two now and then either for boat repairs or for old style millwright's work which both require grown crooks. It is just common work to me. I have saved a few high stumps when logging this winter and will see what I can get out of them once the ground has thawed. In...

When we rebuilkt an old log granary which was originally built in the 1690-ies the cutting tools I saw marks of were: -Short edged felling axe -Broad axe -Knife -Chisel -1 1/2 inch spoon auger. -1 inch spoon auger -Probably a Scandinavian style straight handled draw knife though I am not...

10 cm long tenons require some very large cutters. My tennon cutters can manage up to some 7 cm. It is hard to find any lager cutters han that in this wicked time of ours. For anything longer I use a 300mm cirkular saw blade held between a pair of home made flanges on the spindle.

I have had the opportunity to buy quite a few brand new Holzmann branded Chineese machines for 50 cent per kilo. Never found one that was worth the price.

I am a fan of waterstone grinding but 8 inches is a rather smal stone which will soon wear out. If the rest of the machine hasn't worn out even sooner. My main waterstone grinder is an old Alimak which is approaching the "ship of theseus" stage. The motor and the frame and the water trough and...

There are two types of cast iron anvils: 1. Old American ones with a spring steel plate fire welded to the top. They tend to crack with age are very difficult bordering impossible to repair but as long as they least they are decent usable anvils. Few were imported to Europe. They are no longer...

The way I was taught to work wood there is only limited use for birch plywood. Probably because I got much of my knowledge from men who had learned woodwork before the market was flooded by cheap Russian birch plywood in the 90-ies. Before that the stuff was expensive and was used accordingly...

I run a 38mm auger bit in an electric drill all the time. You just need a drill with enough torque and low enough speed and some means of holding the auger bit. So simple. In this case the solution is a large slow running Eibenstock drill and an auger bit with a number 3 morse taper welded to...

At 86 you are well past the age when a man doesn't have to care about what others think. One of my father's best friends started appearing increaingly senile year by year in his early 70-ies and all who know him were totally convinced he had become gaga. He was becoming concerned about it...

I have come to hate those cellosaic or sour rods. The welds become brittle in low temperatures and things fall apart. Those things are dangerous. Therefore they are structly forbidden for anything structural or anything in the construction trade in Finland.

New Stanley and Record are all about using an established brand to con people into buying fake tools. One can usually make a usable tool out of one of those fakes but it generally involves quite a bit of filing and often hardening and tempering the blade and occasionally recasting and machining...

The problem being that no ordinary people will be able to afford car ownership when all old cars just disappear into a black hole instead of being scavenged for parts. Not the mention the persistant problem that an electic car becomes affordable at between 15 and 20 years of age. The battery is...

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My experience with air cooled inboat engine is with 4 hp Bernard engines. They were still common in my childhood in the 80-ies and 90-ies. The sound is deafening and the only way for anyone in the boat to avoid damaging one's hearing severely was to wear earmuffs every minute the engine was...

My oppinion is that the greatest hindrance there is to making the best of the woods both as sustainable fuel and sustainable timber production is that most people including woodland owners have become too detached from the woods. Then they start to think that one either must let timber companies...

According to what I have read coal does form even in our time but because various life form eats most of the organic matter the amount is very very small.

I rekon that wood burning is a very sound and sensible and environmentally healthy heat source when it is part of a sound and sencible system starting from the pine cone and going all the way trough growing tree to firewood and up the chimney. The problem being that this sound and sencible...

A secondhand Rapid or Ejca L18 or Wadkin Bursgreen AGS10 would be other options.

That is a huge motor. 15hp is enough for a 25 or maybe even 30 foot boat. I am thinking about the range from 2 to 5 hp. I also remember the time when Bernard motors were common. Because of that I don't like air cooling on a boat engine.

It is. The ice age weighed down the earth's crust and now it is floating back up all while the German coast and to a lesser extent Denmark are sinking as the bubble of surplus material they are sitting on is drained. In the last decade the land has been rising at a slower than normal rate maybe...